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July 2021 Summer Picnic

Where: Hagar Park, 8134 28th Ave, Jenison Georgetown Township Maple Shelter Time: 5:00-5:30   Arrival 5:30           Welcome 5:30-6:15   Sack Lunch 6:15-6:30   Know your neighbor Bingo 7:30           Quilts presented 8:00           Deserts/ smores’ Who: All WMQG members All GR Modern Quilters guild members All friends who love quilting Details: Bring a pen or pencil ( For Quilter Friends Bingo w/ Prizes) Wear your name tag Bring magazine or board to write on Bring your sack lunch/drink and a chair Bring Mini Quilt 36″ or smaller Tables will be set up for: program sign-ups 2022 enrollment NICU quilts

July 2021 Summer Picnic – Tuesday, July 27, 5:30 p.m.

Where: Hagar Park, 8134 28th Ave, Jenison Georgetown Township Maple Shelter Time: 5:00-5:30   Arrival 5:30           Welcome 5:30-6:15   Sack Lunch 6:15-6:30   Know your neighbor Bingo 7:30           Quilts presented 8:00           Deserts/ smores’ Who: All WMQG members All GR Modern Quilters guild members All friends who love quilting Details: Bring a pen or pencil ( For Quilter Friends Bingo w/ Prizes) Wear your name tag Bring magazine or board to write on Bring your sack lunch/drink and a chair Bring Mini Quilt 36″ or smaller Tables will be set up for: program sign-ups 2022 enrollment NICU quilts

Workshop with Pat Yamin – Two Classes, One Price!!!!

3500 Byron Center, Wyoming, MI 49509 3500 Byron Cente, Wyoming, MI

A LIMITED NUMBER OF SPOTS ARE LEFT!! SIGN UP TODAY!!! We have a special treat this month, Pat is going to teach two classes for the price of one!  This will be a one-day event. As an added bonus, you will also receive Pat Yamin's quilt book, "One-Patch Scrap Quilts"!! What: Spinning Stars Quilt Class AND Diamonds and Squares Quilt Class When: Tuesday, September 28, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Where: Calvary Reformed Church 3500 Byron Center, Wyoming, MI 49509 Spinning Stars Quilt This traditional pattern gets a totally new look by adding a square to the patchwork pattern for an interesting visual quilt. In

$50.00 – $60.00

September Lecture – Pat Yamin – “Unfinished Business”

3500 Byron Center, Wyoming, MI 49509 3500 Byron Cente, Wyoming, MI

Pat Yamin, president and founder of Come Quilt With Me, is well known in the quilting industry, and has appeared on many television and radio quilt shows, the most recent being The Quilt Show with Ricky Tims and Alex Anderson. Her company manufactures templates and other tools that assure accuracy and shorten the time necessary to make a quilt. This lecture is a look at Pat’s collection of quilt tops and the stories they tell.  Pat began her love affair with old textiles at a Brimfield, Massachusetts outdoor flee market. There were mountains of pillowcases, dresser scarves, doilies and tablecloths everywhere; quilt blocks and unfinished

November 16 Workshop with Coleen Merte – Pink Grapefruit

3500 Byron Center, Wyoming, MI 49509 3500 Byron Cente, Wyoming, MI

In this workshop, you will make this beautiful quilt.  Pink Grapefruit takes a traditional pattern, but recreates it through a modern filter, to make this stunning quilt. This is one of Coleen's most requested workshops. Finished Size 72" x 84" Supply List 4 1/4 yards white 1 1/2 yards dark gray 1/3 yard light gray 1/3 yard solid coral 1/4 yard coral print (pieced blocks) 1/4 yard second coral print (pieced blocks) 12 1/2" square third coral print 12 1/2" square fourth coral print 12 1/2" square light gray print 12 1/2" square second light gray print 5 1/2 yards backing 2/3 yards binding Sewing

$50.00 – $60.00

November Lecture – Dan Burke – The Love of Paper Piecing Trunk Show

3500 Byron Center, Wyoming, MI 49509 3500 Byron Cente, Wyoming, MI

In keeping with our focus on Michigan talent, Dan Burke from Lansing, will be joining us and sharing his love of paper piecing!  He will show us how enjoyable, rewarding and amazing foundation piecing can be! Dan began quilting in 2004 as a craft he could do with his Mom.  Not having known how to use a sewing machine, Dan took classes and found he enjoyed paper piecing or foundation piecing. Dan will be showing us approximately 45 stunning quilts. He will include great information about different types of foundations he uses to make his award-winning quilts  Dan will have kits, fabric and patterns available

Lecture: Beth Helfter – Give It A Scrap Slap

As a mostly scrappy designer, Beth prefers to dig into her stash to create designs that appeal to her senses of color and value, using as many different fabrics as possible. Keeping to just a few color families in each quilt palette is one of her best tricks to keeping scrappy quilts from getting too out of hand but allowing them to sing with tone and movement. As a member of Quiltmaker Magazine's 2014 Scrap Squad, she recreated a design from each of six issues using only scraps, and was able to bring out different secondary designs and block highlights simply by adding more tone

Zoom Class – Exploring Half-Square Triangles with Beth Helfter – January 26, 2022

Accordion Sewn HSTs have created a whole revelation in half square triangle making, where everyone doesn't need a twin, scrap quilts fully realize the potential of their variety, and blocks can be created just by ordering fabrics within accordions for perfect placement of color and fabric. " The Accordion Sewn HSTsTM method came to me almost in a fever dream, and since then I’ve been on a mission to bring it to groups everywhere, showing the cool things it can do, from scrappy to ordered accordions that create a block practically in one fell swoop. In this class, you will learn the basic technique, and

March Lecture – Sally Manke – Trunk Show of Art and Traditional Quilts

3500 Byron Center, Wyoming, MI 49509 3500 Byron Cente, Wyoming, MI

This lecture will be in person at the Calvary Reformed Church Show includes a large collection of art and traditional quilts including their inspiration and fun info. Enjoy a light-hearted presentation including information on how the quilts were made, special materials used and any tips for you to create your own. Watch a parade of actual quilts using confetti art, raw edge appliqué, fiber painting and crazy mixed media techniques. All art quilts are all original designs to inspire your next work. An informal and fun lecture with interaction and a Q&A at the conclusion. Sally Manke's mission is to delight others with textile art

Sally Manke Workshop – Lone Pine Art Quilt – Wednesday, March 23, 2022

3500 Byron Center, Wyoming, MI 49509 3500 Byron Cente, Wyoming, MI

Master new techniques while while exploring unique fibers to create a winter woodland art quilt. Novelty thread, yarns, fabric, roving, Sari silk and tulle are used to establish depth with a distant background and textural foreground. Finish with a full, vibrant storybook tree or one closer to Charlie Brown's. Learn how techniques used in class can be applied to an array of future quilts. (Kit available $40 includes Backing, batting, background, novelty thread, yarns, fabric, roving, Sari silk and tulle) https://www.sallymanke.com/

$50.00 – $60.00

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